Merton College MS. 43
Former shelfmark: C. 1. 4
AUGUSTINE, HUGH OF ST VICTOR; S. XV med., S. XIV med.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
fols. i, ii-ivv blank. On fol. iv is a table of contents, s. xv, showing that an ‘Ysagoge philosophie moralis’ is missing after art. 10. An annotator of s. xvi or xvii notes its absence. It may have been ps.-Robert Grosseteste, Summa Philosophiae (Powicke, p. 183; Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 265 n.).
Physical Description
Collation
Binding
Standard Merton s. xvii, sewn on three bands; formerly chained from the usual position. fol. i was a pastedown in an earlier binding.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
On fol. iv, erased, ‘Liber ⟨magistri Thome Gauge quem in parte emit et in parte scripsit⟩’; ‘prec’ vii. s.’ Thomas Gawge (BRUO 749–50), fellow c. 1441–8, canon of York &c., d. 1470.
Inside the front board is a sheet of paper with ‘C. 6, 11’ (canc.) and a table of contents, s. xvii, ‘N. 4. 4. Art:’, s. xvii, canc. and replaced by ‘C. 1. 4 (XLIII)’ in red; the College bookplate. ‘4’ is inked on the foredge.
Merton College MS. 43 – Part I
Contents
Language(s): Latin
A paraphrase, the full text pr. PL 207. 989–1006 (repr. of De Goussainville, Paris, 1667), citing this copy and MS 47 (see col. xxiA-B). The incipit here corresponds to the beginning of the ‘Quarta tribulationis utilitas’, at 995C of the printed text. Bloomfield 6239, only this and MS 47 with this incipit, as against the far commoner 1302. Sharpe, Handlist, p. 423.
PL 39. 1713–15.
PL 176. 977–88; Goy, p. 425.
CCSL cont. med. 27B (1979), pp. 909–29; Bloomfield 0455. A marginal note by the scribe, cropped by the binder, states that this is not the end of the complete work, and that it is more likely to be by Gregory than Augustine.
PL 40. 1213–14. The common excerpt from De Spiritu et Anima.
Beg. as MS 13 art. 33.
PL 39. 1783–6.
unpr.; Römer 2. 378–9, citing eleven copies including this one, the earliest of s. ix; apparently not genuine, but ends as De Doctr. Christ. 1. 15.
PL 177. 565–7; Bloomfield 1837.
pr. Paris 1518; Thomson, Grosseteste, pp. 268–70; Bloomfield 5102.
Physical Description
Layout
Written space 130–40 × 75–96 mm. , frame-ruled with crayon, written in c. 34 long lines.
Hand(s)
The secretary hand of Thomas Gawge.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red; a few red initials flourished in ink of text; red paraphs and underlining.
History
Merton College MS. 43 – Part II
Contents
Language(s): Latin
pr. Venice 1496 &c.; Glorieux, Théol. 178a; Thomson, Grosseteste, p. 257; Bloomfield 5532.
PL 101. 1246–71, ending differently from the pr. text.
The rest of the quire, fol. 67rv, was filled early on with a sermon:
Followed by a note in French on the ‘dies periculosae’: pr. from a different copy by P. Meyer, ‘Bribes de littérature anglo-normande’, Jahrbuch für roman. u. engl. Literatur7 (1866), 47–51, &c.; Dean & Boulton, no. 379 (citing this MS as 569)
PL 217. 773–916; list of MSS by D. F. Wright in Rivista di storia della chiesa in Italia 29 (1975), 444–52, this copy his no. 115 at p. 447. There were originally many more chapters in this copy. The last ch. in PL ends here ‘Panis fiat corpus et uinum sanguis dilectissimi filii tui domini nostri Iesu Christi.’
Physical Description
Layout
Written space 160 × 95 mm. , frame-ruled with crayon in 2 cols; written in c. 41 lines.
Hand(s)
The anglicana hand of Walter, who occasionally lengthens ascenders into the upper margin, and ornaments them with oak leaves &c.
Decoration
Blue initials flourished in red, red initials flourished in ink of text; a few small plain red or blue initials.
History
Additional Information
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Bibliography
Funding of Cataloguing
Conversion of the printed catalogue to TEI funded by the Warden and Fellows of Merton College .
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Last Substantive Revision
2018-08-01: First online publication